Stuffing material



Sept. 22, 1931. x. LAUCIRICA STUFFING MATERIAL Filed June 21, 1929 INVENTOR X'avier Laucin'aa BY j. as 1,

. ATTORN Patented Sept. 22, 1931 *cmmss ms XAVIER LAUCIRICA,

s'rurrme Application filed June 21,-1929.-'; Serial no. stagi:

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in materials for stufiing mat tresses, pillows, cushions, furniture seats, and other similar objects.

The invention has for an object the provision of material of the class mentioned which is of simple durable construction, dependable in use and efiicient in action, and which may be manufactured and sold at a reasonable cost.

The invention proposes the use of pieces of cork formed in strips or small pieces of sheets, of onion skin weight and haphazardly crumpled and wrinkled into; mass form for providing stufling material. In this specification the term mass form? is meant to be the form obtained by crumpling and wrinkling the sheet so that many overlapping folds occur. This particularly distinguishes from the mere crumpling and wrinkling of a sheet which is thereafter again flattened out into sheet form and simplvpresents the creases caused by the wrin kling, The term mass form in this specificationmeans the form in which the sheet is before it is again straightened out. In this condition of the material, it has quite elastic properties and will not clog or be come hard. In addition it is very light and may keep in perfect condition for a very long period. of time. This permits it to be substituted with greater advantages for other materials used up to date such as for W001. feathers, hair, etc. It is also proposed that the material may be rolled instead of being crumpled and wrinkled. A

- means may be provided for maintaining the rolled or crumpled condition of the individual pieces.

For further comprehension of the invention, and of the objects and advantages thereof, reference will be had to the following description and accompanying drawings, and to the appended claims in'which serum?) 5 the various novel features of the 1 remore'particularlysetforth. i or; In? the accompanying drawings 1 {forming a material-part of this disclosure t Fig gli is. a plalrview of a pieceof mate-e1 rlalqin .fiat condition preparatory for use accordingto this invention. T "Fig. 2 is an. enlarged sectional view taken ontheline-22.of.Fig. 1. N 1 Fig; 3 shows the she'et illustrated; in Figd f55 1 in a crumpled and'wrinkled condition. Figj/l is a side-elevational'view of-Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is ,aperspective'view ofthe sheet ShOWDTlHTlg. '1 in a rolledi'condition. v .;Fig.f6 isjaYplan:viewrof a piece of the so 1 material constructed according to; modified f, j 11. I I Fig. 7 is a perspective, View of the mate- .rial shown-in Fig. 6 in a rolled condition. 5. Fig :8i"s a perspective view of the-imate-go5 ri'al shown in *Fig. 6 in a crumpled-condition. 3:; The reference numeral: 10 indicates genf'erally a stripzor pieceof 'dust of 'corkjnateiirial,:tliat'1is,:.ini sheetform and of onion -';s'kiii-wei'ght.nf Breferably the thickness-'of;-; 70 vithe: :sheet s'houldbe approximately one or YT-two thousandths of an 'inch. I'Numeral 11 indicates; the natural; openings of the sheet =10 dueito'the apertures of a corkfrom'which the sheet'is cut.- i This thin material is quitegzz'jr V soft*and. resilient. It is extremely flexible. Itmaybe loosely crumpled and; lwrin-kled 7 in various haphazard forms :anidu'pon'releasing. willsubstantially maintain these forms-yin this condition it is intendedthatato the, material bev insertedias-a filler for; matand :soit qualities. I

scopeof the invention kled condition. Fig; 4 merely illustrates the third dimensional View of Fig. 3.

The stuffing material may be modified by rolling the sheets of cork instead of crumpling and wrinkling them. Numeral 13 indicates the sheet shown in Fig. 1 in a rolled condition. A plurality 'of-such rolls should be stuffed into the objects desired to be filled and quite a soft cushioning effect is produced by these rolls. These rolls when pressed together, as for example when someone sits uponoa furniture -se'a't stuffed with them, they become flattened" out temporarily but offer quite some resiliency to beingfiattened out. When the personleavesthe seat the rolls immediately expand to substan-' tially their original conditions. 'l hiseis quite desirable.

puffed form.

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' XAVIER LAUCIRICA.

In the event that the rolls are used in pillows, the pillows may :bezmanm ally handled for conditioning them into a In Fig. 6- a modified for-m has been illus- 1 trated in :which sheet cork material 1 0 has plastic material 14 :such as shellac engaged along its longitudinal edges. :In Fig.3? the V =sheet=illustrated in Fig. '6 'is in rolled c0ndi tion so that the plastic material :14 is :at

the ends of the roll. The plastic material tends to maintain-the rolledcondition (if the sheet and t'h'e material intermediate the plastic-edges retainsall of its previousiresilient and "soft qualities. Thematerial "shown in F-ig. 6 may "also be 'crumpledand wrinkled as shown in Fig. 8. .The plastic =ip'ortions :of this materia l tend to maintain lits ashape 7 in crumpled eon'dition while the remaining portion of the material presents the resilient Veryithin sheets of cork are very soft mfd have quiteelastic qualities. When these sheets are crumpled into :mass fform,rf.they I produce a mass which is very-soft and resembl'esyin certain characteristies feathers very closely. The crumpling of thin rco'rk s'heetsinto the mass form is substantially ydiflerent than the mere crumplingrof pap'er I sheets and distinctly; different from: crumpled 7 :paper sheets'which havethereafterabe'en flat- 'tened 1 out again. "The difierence f is 'that the structural quality of the different materi als are "such that a much so'fterimass is "obta-ined -by the use -offthe cork-sheets.

While I' have shown and described the preferred embodiment of my invention, it is to' b'e understood that do not :limit mysel ftoth'e precisesc'onstruetion'lrereinsdisclosed and the right. is reserved to all changes and modificationscoming within the :and other'isimilar objects, comprising pieces as defined :in' the apins 

